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Investigation reveals serious scientific misconduct by IIT Dhanbad faculty

Two Assistant Professors have 14 papers that have been retracted and two papers corrected for image duplication.

Space suits developed by ISRO for Indian astronauts. Photo: VSSC

With human space flight, India to push frontiers

Madhumathi D.S.

THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Watch: Spacewalkers send satellites flying from International Space Station

AP They also installed an antenna for a animal-tracking project known as Icarus, short for International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space.

An artist’s rendition of Caelestiventus hanseni

Watch: 200 million-year-old Pterosaur fossil found in the US

AFP Caelestiventus hanseni had 112 teeth, including fang-like spikes sticking out near the snout.

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Best from the Science Journals: finding rocks older than Earth, and curing paralysed mice

Aswathi Pacha Here are some of the most interesting research to have appeared in top science journals last week

ISRO set to launch its TV channel

Special Correspondent Space agency to promote scientific temper in country

Baby sleeping in a cradle hanging from thorny shrub.

India not on track to meet 2030 targets of reducing child mortality

PTI The number of neonatal deaths remains around 2.4 times higher than the target

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All you need to know about the Human Space mission 'Gaganyaan'

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Scientists to test land for LIGO

All you need to know about the Human Space mission 'Gaganyaan'

Investigation reveals serious scientific misconduct by IIT Dhanbad faculty

Watch: These cosmonauts use their hands to set satellites flying into space

With human space flight, India to push frontiers

Watch: 200 million-year-old Pterosaur fossil found in the US

The best from the science journals: finding rocks older than Earth, and curing paralysed mice

Here are some of the most interesting research to have appeared in top science journals last week

Amazon droughts reducing forest’s CO2 absorption: NASA

The undisturbed forest can be a natural carbon “sink,” absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it puts back into it.

ISRO set to launch its TV channel

Space agency to promote scientific temper in country

Small launcher will have a big impact

Its first test launch is planned for mid-2019

ISRO to celebrate Sarabhai centenary, launch TV channel

Sarabhai, the architect of the Indian space programme, the first ISRO chief and renowned cosmic ray scientist, was born on August 12, 1919.

World’s first mission to touch the Sun lifts off: NASA

The Parker Solar Probe will perform the closest-ever observations of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona.

Genetic ‘barcodes’ reveal three frogs unreported in India

Technique also points to smaller distribution of the ornate narrow-mouthed frog, which may require a protection programme

Nanoparticles therapy a double blow to cancer

Aids in making chemotherapy effective

Actual problems are solved only by ‘whole men’

It is high time that the humanities, arts, craft and design are introduced in school from the very beginning

Paleo-rivers predated Harappans by 35,000 years

A recent study rules out the possibility that Harappan civilisation flourished on the banks of mighty rivers

IGIB team finds a new target to reverse iron overload disease

Instead of picking one target for drug screen, they focused on the symptoms of the disease

Gecko species split into three

One clade named after herpetologist Whitaker

NASA's Parker Solar Probe launch postponed

The unmanned probe’s main goal is to unveil the secrets of the corona, the unusual atmosphere around the Sun.

Indonesian island lifted 10 inches by deadly quake, say scientists

Scientists from NASA and the California Institute of Technology made a ground deformation map and measured changes in Lombok’s surface

The Hindu Science Quiz: of standards, measurements and haplogroups

Do you know who keeps the measurement standards for the nation? Take this quiz to know the answer, and for more interesting questions.

We averted a possible debacle: ISRO chairman

‘Decision to recall GSAT-11 justified’

Centre launches portal for scientific research, funding

There’s also a compilation of technologies developed in India, the organisations that have developed these technologies and the status of the technologies.

NASA counts down to launch of first spacecraft to ‘touch Sun’

The sun is full of mysteries, says the project scientist.

Indian telescope spots distant radio galaxy

The distance to this galaxy was determined using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii and the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona.

Docile or hostile?: 'Domestication' genes found in foxes

Comparing the sequenced genomes of foxes for their friendliness towards people with another group bred for hostility uncovered dozens of telltale differences

‘Primitives enjoyed scent of early flowers’

Floral smell has ancient origin: study

Forty-five new exoplanets discovered

The findings will improve existing models of solar systems

What’s New in Science #12 | Diamonds and fishy memories

This time, it's about diamonds that are forever lost, fish with blocked noses, and adults with fake memories.

NASA’s Curiosity rover completes six years on Mars

Curiosity’s mission is to determine whether the red planet ever was, or is, habitable to microbial life.

For the love of science

Vigyan Prasar launches Internet-based channel to highlight India’s achievements

Centre mulls ways to block mobile apps

Facebook, WhatsApp on the list

India not on track to meet 2030 targets of reducing child mortality

The number of neonatal deaths remains around 2.4 times higher than the target

IIT-Madras powers up a desi chip

Microprocessor developed by the institute’s computer scientists is fabricated by Intel

Scientists unveil details about Stonehenge builders

Suggest some of them could have been from west Wales

Robots can manipulate people, show scientists

Interactive robots can emotionally manipulate humans, say scientists who found that people have a strong tendency to ascribe human-like attributes to

Demystifying Science - August 5, 2018

What is the FOXP2?FOXP2 is one of the most famous genes to be discovered because of its role in language. It is highly expressed during brain

Traffic jams in the brain

Neurons transport cargo of various sizes constantly, and many times, this can lead to traffic jams. A new study of the roundworm (Caenorhabditis

Mcr-1 gene seen in K. pneumoniae bacteria

The gene endows resistance against the last-hope antibiotic colistin

Dire times for coastal fisheries?

Illegal fishing gear, violations of existing regulations common

IISER Pune find species can turn invasive in the same ecosystem

Becoming an invasive species even within the same ecosystem might be the ugly fallout of climate change and habitat destruction

IISER Bhopal strike at the root of head and neck cancer growth

Depleting production of PAK2 affects chain of events that reduces the cancers

NASA names Sunita Williams, 8 others, for first space flights on commercial spacecraft

The space agency has announced that the nine astronauts will launch on the first crewed test flights and missions of new commercial spacecraft built and operated by The Boeing Company and SpaceX.

The Hindu Science Quiz: of mental time travel and Einstein’s brain

Want to know what is mental time travel and what happened to Einstein’s brain? Take this quiz.

Everyday plastics emit greenhouse gases: study

They generate the potent greenhouse gas methane as well as ethylene as they age

Indian-origin mathematician Akshay Venkatesh gets prestigious Fields Medal

He is one of four winners of mathematics’ top honour known as the Nobel prize for math.

India ranks 56th in early initiation of breastfeeding, say UNICEF, WHO

Only two in five newborns are breastfed within first hour of life across the world

NBRC researchers decipher how Zika virus causes microcephaly

Babies born with microcephaly have significantly smaller head size compared with normal babies

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